The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-01-01
RELIGIOUS.


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Existznee is quality but life is 4
privilege.
We exist from necessity, bnt We
lire. thai Is perpetnate that existance,
from usolea
katitnae hndsa Thousand Ingenious
meaus d returning thanks without
Wonuaing medesty.
Tho world says | viii love you IL
ypH will I9ve me. God haya, ! do
love you, will you mot love me
When sc look up we beat realize
that the sun il shining down on us.
So when We look up TO God we best
Fealize that God is looking down in
marcy upon rs.
Every road which leads to throne
il delightful, were It bristling with
shprns every road which leads TO a
preoipice Is friglitfui, were 1t covered
with r0ses.-E eaeion.
IL liaa been said that out Of thou
sand. rs men foresee coming events;
10 see them as they get here; 275 see
chem after they pass; ATS never see
them at al. How true
King Solomon, the wisest of men,
who had all that riches, honor and
pleasure corld give, warns US against
sins. lie calls them "little foxes" and
he says ''tiey spoil the vines.p
Ye who weep, come to Jesus, for be
neeps; We who suffer, come TO him, for
lie heals We who trimble, come to
him, for he smiles; ye who pass away,
come 10 him, for he abides.-Hago.
To suffer IN patience the crosses
which we cannot understand, the
thwartings which seem to have no end
or aim, the humiliations that do but
aecm to break and scatter the spiritual
mood Of the SOU, Ito endure thus is
to offer Of the best that the soul has
10 giye.--Mary LiHkskiH.
That there should be a Christ, and
that should be Christless; Tint there
should be s cleansing, and / should
remain foul that there should be
Fathers love, and should be an alien;
that there should be heaven, and / |
should be cast into hell, is grief embit-
tered, sorrow acknowledgement
Listen not to Satan, telling thee ex.
istence Is hard. Il is hard TO resist
sin. it is hard not to follow thine own
will, it Is hard TO save thy soul; but il |
is harder far and uncomfortable to lose
it and the sight Of God. Thine own
easy ways will become hard to thee
God will make hard ways easy.-Dr.
Pussy.
No spirit is wholly cast off from
God If il longs after God. II thou
eanst be content without God thou
art indeed q lost one; but il there be
in thee wretcbed, ranking dIscon-
tent at the very thought Of being sew
cred from thy God, then thou art his
and he ART thine, and no division shall |
come between thee and him.
In all your onjoyments, therefore,
be moderate. Set your heart in the
love Of God and the faith of Christ,
and difficulties will disappear. The |
inner life in You will assimilate to the
divine everywhere, and return its own
blessed and consecIating influence TO
sill yonr work and all your amuse.
ments.--TallocA.
The religion of some people is con
. strained I; they are like people who
use the cold bath, not for pleasure, but
necessity and their health; they 60 in
with reluctance, and are glad when
they got out but religion TO trne
believer is like water TO fish; it is his
element seemingly native element;
be lives In it, and he couldnot live ont
of it.-NeWton.
A heart enriched with this plenti-
tnde docs more than occasionally ad.
vert TO God, or draw TO him at times
nc duty or necessity. God is its
atmosphere, its abode. The appre-
Eension of him is abiding the refer.
snee to him habitual the help from
him increasing. Into that soul Jeho-
yah brings the court and kingdom of
heaven, and makes it the wonder and
admiration Of the very angels.---ReV.
Thomas Collins.
The comet we have seen to-day NAV
not return, in its erratic course, for
half century. There are great crisis
hours in our history,-golden oppor-
ttnities and chances, only once given,
never to retnrn. Let ms not forfeit
them. It may be our eternal detri-
ment Il was the wall of the old RO-
man, q have lost a day." See that
we have not in bitterness Of soul to
s,,yr-HI have lost a life."---g r. Mac-
DgG ID. d.
Life is real; life is earnest" There
II d divine aacrcdness ii work. Relig- /
ion elevates and dignifes labor. He
eho says, mot slothfnl in business"
would never have given his sanction
~ life Of inactive, dreamy pietism.
His was q mind farthest removed from
the dogma that when man becomes
religions he must shun his fellows
desert the market and the exchange,
close his ledger, put az arrest on the
wheels of industry, and bid his neigh !
Dor and his work FAREWELL 8
Did yoH ever read Of .lEsop's man, z
sho was hung for stealing slate pen d
ii 7 When he was a little boy he &
'arried home from school pencil, 9
ind asked his mother if he must re- a
urn it 10 its owner. s'No,r said she, q
keep al yon can GET He took her
advice until the gallows took him and A
MAen the rope Was around his neck
As'A Als wseping mother went to kisal
nm good wye. Instead OF kisa be bitl
..ss and tSld her II abe had whipped
hsEp Wh&n be stole thai s,enoiI sbe van,lal
iaaHAg haze l.&,, $1,000. 8 N ~ n sfaS